Independence Day-eve this year marked the death of little Indra Meghwal, a nine-year-old Dalit boy beaten to death by his…
“I live in an area that has barely any trees. There is little shade and during very hot days, I…
It is early August and Kolar is shades of brown and green. Unexpected showers in the previous months have lifted…
“Rainfed agriculture in India is a risky enterprise, owing to uncertainties in rainfall,” reads a World Bank article published in…
For a decade, the uranium tailings pond near Tummalapalle and other villages in the YSR Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh…
“As scientists, what worries us the most is the scale at which the glaciers are melting in the Himalayas,” said…
When the Earth Commission released its third paper on earth system boundaries in 2023, one element stood out as distinct…
On 21 April, during a high-level committee meeting on the rejuvenation of the Yamuna river, VK Saxena made a plea…
Palm oil has become essential to India’s food security in the past three decades, replacing other edible oils such as…
Gangtok, in Sikkim, was reeling under acute water shortage, after a cloud burst-induced landslide on April 20 damaged the city’s…
India’s first water body census, which primarily focused on small water bodies like ponds, tanks, lakes, water conservation structures, and…
“I can assure you one thing that the mountains are changing. And they are changing very fast. There is something…
India's ambitious drive to expand domestic palm oil production fails to consider the subcontinent’s changing climate, analysis shows. It’s an…
Leaders and authorities recently gathered in New York for the first UN water conference in decades. The hope was that…
Every day, Bidya* spends three to four hours getting water from the thulo dhara, or big spring, three kilometres from…
Tone Mickrow, a member of the indigenous Idu Mishmi community, lives a few hours’ drive from Etalin – the proposed…
Reusing treated wastewater in irrigation in India could have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 1.3 million tonnes in 2021, according…
Source: PTI UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, all…
India is targeting production of five Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) of green hydrogen by 2030. However, a discourse on its…
Over the past few months, huge chimneys have been belching thick smoke incessantly on the outskirts of Meerut city in…
Within weeks of the partial evacuation of Joshimath, an ancient pilgrim town in Uttarakhand, northern India, land started to sink…
Climate change is destabilising the freshwater supply on which all life depends. Multiple disasters in 2022 drove home the point…
It’s 8 p.m. on a rainy day in mid-October and a family of 10 from Beed has arrived in the…
As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of hydropower projects…
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